The biology of language /

The biology of language /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Puppel, Stanisław.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1995.
Description:	x, 300 p.
Language:	English
Subject:	Biolinguistics -- Congresses. Language and languages -- Origin -- Congresses. Historical linguistics -- Congresses. Human evolution -- Congresses. Biolinguistics. Historical linguistics. Human evolution. Language and languages -- Origin. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1749621

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ISBN:	1556194803 (U.S.) : $84.00
Notes:	Papers presented at a conference. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Preface
1. Table of contents
2. Acknowledgements
3. Chimps, children and creoles
4. Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language
5. Essentialism in language
6. The\invention of the syllable
7. Genetic classification and the historical method
8. Animal communication and human language
9. From proto-language to grammar
10. The\biological imperatives in communicative interaction
11. Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use
12. Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate
13. Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language
14. The\biology of language
15. A\possibility of quantum evolution of language
16. Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language
17. Index of names
18. Index of terms